HUGE congrats to the winner! 🎉

Honored to have From These Dark Abodes listed as a finalist!

Marty’s Goodreads page for audition for the Fox which has 3000 ratings

Hit 3,000 ratings! How wild is that??

it’s deathin’ time!

(still working on possible catch phrases) (don’t tell @ecatherine.com)

anytime I see an indie bookshop, I go in & buy something; few things give me hope like indie bookshops

A 1990s "Read" poster with Miss Piggy lounging and reading dressed as Cleopatra and Kermit standing behind her dressed as Julius Ceasar holding a stack of books. The caption at the bottom reads: "some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing"

My best attempt

The Deadlands - Issue 42 | Psychopomp Includes the work of Nosawema O., |A. E. Weisgerber, Phoenix Mendoza, R.B. Lemberg, Maya Ysabel Ng, Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr., Diana Dima, and Kelsey Dean

issue 42 of The Deadlands is RELEASED UPON THE WORLD

including many deathy fiction and poetry

INCLUDING ONE (1) NOVELETTE, our first novelette in a while it's been too long tbh.

check out the issue page below and DEFINITELY, PRETTY PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND SUPPORT US LIKE A SKELETON
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Good morning YEAR OF THE MER is not romantasy. This has been a PSA. Enjoy your bookconning.

meme of tropes pointing at a book cover, with the Exit Ghost cover in the middle. From the top, going clockwise, the things pointing at the book say 1. a very good dog 2. disaster bi 3. Revenge? 4. ride or die female friendships 5. the beach 6. witches 7. messy grief

happy Sunday

buy Exit Ghost (and review it and tell your friends and don't worry about the dog because he is safe and fine)

books2read.com/ExitGhost

Sunday self promotion! Pre-order my latest novella today!

8 Story Collections That Inspired Samantha Mills’s Stunning Speculative Fiction The Nebula Award-winning novelist shares the short fiction that informed her new collection, Rabbit Test and Other Stories.

Oh oh I had so much fun writing about 8 of my favorite short story collections for Publisher's Weekly!

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Oh my god, I’m on this amazing list, along with @mariahaskins.com Suzan Palumbo, Carmen Maria Machado, and more

Book cover for From These Dark Abodes by Lyndsie Manusos (Psychopomp): St. Edah’s, a house without exit: Lethe and Petunia are mortal prisoners, servants to immortal creatures who unzip from their skin each night and party as skeletons. Lethe has no memory of how she came to be trapped in this nightmare, only that despite the tenderness she feels for Petunia, she must escape. Together, they traverse the infinite house, searching for passage while finding evidence of their former lives—lives that are not what they believed them to be. https://psychopomp.com/product/dark-abodes/

Book cover for Starstruck by Aimee Ogden (Psychopomp): Prish has always been a radish who knows what she’s about; chiefly, her wife, Alsing, a literal and figurative fox. They’ve woven together a cozy life around welcoming other starstruck beings into the world—plants and animals ensouled by a falling star—but when the stars stop falling, all of that unravels. Prish gives in to Alsing’s longing to move on, and their new path leads them to two unlikely companions: an abandoned human child, and, impossibly, a brand-new starstruck who is neither a plant nor an animal, but rather a chunk of anthropomorphized granite with delusions of destiny. https://psychopomp.com/starstruck/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Starstruck (by @aimeeogdenwrites.com) & From These Dark Abodes (by @lmanusos.bsky.social) - both @psychopomp.com. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Needed to read this today. Guys, I have been feeling so demoralized about . . . everything, but publishing especially. It was nice to get a list of some good things as a counterpoint to the gloom.

ICYMI my latest short story recs are up! With stories from @khoreo.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social @frivolouscomma.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @undertow.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @flashfrog.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com

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So good, folks. Horrors you can enjoy!

Novellas (with pictures of book covers): The Drowned Heir, Between the Blood and the Sun, all 8 Run With the Hunted covers together in a grid.

this indie April, dig into my NOVELLAS

Run With the Hunted is a series

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The Drowned Heir and Between the Blood and the Sun each stand alone

books2read.com/DrownedHeir

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Mom guilt, self-care, and a forest with its own plan. My new #horror flash “Mother Tree” is today’s Editor’s Pick on Gavagai and is free to read. Check it out!! 🌳😱👁️

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Deal announcement: Ferry-Loupers by Molly Tanzer (me!), "a speculative reimagining of the real-life historical destruction of the ancient Odin Stone on 19th-century Orkney, Scotland, in which an outsider detective must find a way to deliver justice to a communist on the brink of violence, while learning the true purpose of the nearby Standing Stones of Stenness and discovering some residents may be more than they seem.

New historical fantasy/horror novella by me, out next year from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social!

Let's Go to the Zoo - Reactor Equipped with two sandwiches, a couple sets out to the zoo to see the one totally sane human being.

Good afternoon. "Let's Go to the Zoo" is a short story of about 1700 words. It is about wanting to kill yourself, and not wanting to want to kill yourself. I hope you enjoy it.

Thrilled/amazed/delighted/stunned to find "Because I Held His Name Like a Key" is a Locus Award Finalist along with an absolutely STACKED ballot of great short stories from last year! Congrats to my fellow finalists, what a joy to be in such good company 💜

YAAAAAS MY HEART IS READY

Oh damn. Whoa. Thanks to the folks who enjoyed UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (collection), "Uncertain Sons" (novelette), and "In My Country" (short story). And thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social and @clarkesworldmagazine.com. Congrats to the finalists. An honor to be in your company.

@kcmeadbrewer.com omg PLEASE write a story about this, I beg you. 🐝🪦

Books From These Dark Abodes Released in Fall 2024 Check out Psychopomp’s blogpost here to read more about the inspiration behind my debut novella and E. Catherine Tobler’s (dream editor and …

I updated my author website! It has current information (pretty sure I updated everything), and I added more links to purchase my novella. Skeleton dance!

lyndsiekay.wordpress.com/books/

Color photo of author Gwendolyn Kiste, a fair-skinned woman with brown hair worn long and straight. She wears a leopard-print minidress with ¾ sleeves, a furry black hat, a necklace with a silver bird’s-head pendant, and sharp black eyeliner. She poses in front of a landscape of leaf-strewn lawns, autumn trees, and brick buildings. With one hand at her waist and her chin uptilted, she stares into the camera.

Color photo of author Sara Tantlinger, a fair-skinned woman with blonde hair worn long and straight. She wears a black mock-turtleneck shirt, large glasses, and a necklace with a cute ghost pendant. With her face in ¾ view, she looks slightly down and directly into the camera, smiling mysteriously.

This Story Hour, let’s get spooky! Fan favorite Gwendolyn Kiste returns, and upcoming favorite Sara Tantlinger makes her Story Hour debut. Got the chills already? Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @saratantlinger.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

In this world of horrors, some horrors are worth looking forward to. Join us!

A Statement In Opposition to HR 7661 The freedom to speak and to read is a fundamental principle of the United States of America. That is why we have joined together — parents, students, educators, library workers, authors, free expression advocates, booksellers, and publishers — to stand in support of our nation’s school-aged children and teens and in opposition to H.R. 7661. H.R. 7661, if passed, will compel nationwide book censorship. It confuses obscenity with identity and stigmatizes vulnerable young people, particularly trans children and teens, based on who they are. It will continue to drain funding from our already underfunded schools and libraries. And it will threaten the creativity and critical thinking that are vital to education in the U.S.

Authors Against Book Bans has joined dozens of other organizations, nonprofits, publishers, & stores to issue this joint statement opposing HR7661

Books From These Dark Abodes Released in Fall 2024 Check out Psychopomp’s blogpost here to read more about the inspiration behind my debut novella and E. Catherine Tobler’s (dream editor and …

I updated my author website! It has current information (pretty sure I updated everything), and I added more links to purchase my novella. Skeleton dance!

lyndsiekay.wordpress.com/books/

a black and white cartoon of a skeleton kneeling in a cemetery . Alt: a black and white cartoon of a skeleton dancing with glee in a cemetery .

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